No theme here

I have no theme today, more of a round-up of pictures for you.  I don’t have any more tadpole pictures for you; one day they were there, growing in their legs and the next time I looked, they were gone.  Either they hopped away and on to froggy life without notifying me first, or the diving beetles they shared the fire pit with got really aggressive.  There are still amphibians about, though.  One morning, while I was sitting with my tea, I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and looked over to see this:

Do you see it?

Here it is!

This ridiculously tiny frog was crawling up the side of the house.  Looking back at the pictures, I can’t believe I noticed him in the first place.

Of course there are also the fledglings this time of year.  I walked past the side of the house and a fledging wren popped out of the bushes.  It flew spaztically around and then asked to be fed again while still clinging to the wall.  Fledglings make some toddlers I know look like they’ve got it all together.

clinging like a bat

Speaking of whiny babies, I put the goat kids in the chicken run the other day to eat down the weeds and grass.  Did you know a goat can cry and complain while eating?  while drinking?  Lois got sick of them and stopped answering them after a while, but even that didn’t stop them. They are such mamas boys.  Here they are peeking out from under the chicken coop, hoping I’ll take them home.

pleeeaaaase?

We’ve started soccer season again, and it’s just me on the sideline because Jeff and Maria are coaching Adam’s team.  This was not planned, really.  The team had no coach.  Jeff reluctantly agreed so that Adam could play.  Yep, Jeff’s awesome.

They look good in green.

Adam tees up a goal.

Adam is continuing his scoring streak.  He has scored at least once in every game he has played for the last several seasons, including the flag football season.  It is fun to watch him play.  He tries new stuff all the time.  Occasionally he’ll be watching soccer on TV and disappear outside to go try something he just saw that inspired him.  (You can click on the picture to make it bigger; clicking again zooms in. He looks pretty intense.)  The Green team played very well and won 6-0 against Orange, who looked disorganized.  Must be the superior coaching.  🙂

As if wrangling young boys wasn’t enough, Jeff’s also been working on an equally ambitious project, designed during his morning showers and built modularly in the garage for assembly outside.  This is his Shantee.  At least, that’s what the clerk wrote on the ‘project name’ line of the lumber order.  It’s fancy.  Or fancee.

admiring the view from my garden

Lastly, there’s Yan.  I put Big Yan up for sale and within three hours he was driving away.  Wow!  He never did get over his goat obsession, and it was becoming a bit problematic as he reached maturity.  If you see what I mean.  Anyway, I figured that we already have a flock of three instead of the minimum of four that their breeder recommended, so the simplest solution was to just send the weirdo on.  I never expected such a quick reaction.  Maybe it’s because he’s so photogenic.

The ladies won’t be able to resist.  

Happy Trails!